4. Nikita Khrushchev

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When Khrushchev and Wayne angrily got each other drunk in 1959, it came at the end of a decade in which Khrushchev had symbolized the opposite of America (he and a young Nixon argued ideologies in the Kitchen Debate in the same year). Khrushchev had led the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, and there was no better visage to symbolize the US/USSR tensions than a man who'd famously proclaimed: "We will bury you." In the intervening years, he fostered the Soviet space program, which in '57 resulted in the first orbiting satellite (Sputnik I).